This article maps out the range of municipalities’ responsibility to implement permanent preventive measures against natural peril risk for the built environment. The responsibility is interpreted in the context of their responsibility for climate change adaptation, civil protection and to ensure construction on safe ground. Interviews substantiate that the applicable law and municipalities’ ...

Across the scholarly and journalistic literature, an increasing sense of future uncertainty and prevailing sense of dread is being narrated. This unsettling sense of futurelessness seems to cut across scales in that globally unfolding menaces also shape lived experience locally in specific sites, where global risks intersect with local hazardousness of place. In this chapter, we reflect on how a set ...

<p><i>Background/Aim:</i> The precision and accuracy of corneal imaging technology are crucial in contemporary cataract and refractive surgery. This thesis aims to assess the repeatability and agreement of measurements for total corneal astigmatism (TCA), axial length (AL) and corneal epithelial thickness mapping (ETM) using five modern optical coherence tomography (OCT) devices across various ...

Contests are ubiquitous but do not happen in a vacuum. Rivals can prepare themselves for the contest to improve their ultimate chance of victory. Two contestants with different prize values play an all-pay auction and can invest to improve the efficiency of their own effort in the contest. We show that at most one player will invest, and that two asymmetric pure-strategy equilibria exist depending ...

The intermittent nature of wind and solar power has led to a scientific consensus in the international energy research community that a mix of energy sources and carriers is necessary to achieve carbon neutrality. The search for alternatives has sparked renewed interest in Hydrogen (H2) and its derivatives, such as ammonia and methane. It has also motivated researchers to expand their models to study ...

Arne Østrings kortprosatekst «Ut av stillheten» kan saktens leses som en lettere komisk tekst om en japansk kamikaze-pilots – en selvmordsbombers – umulige tokt mot en militært overlegenfiende, men mer interessant er det at teksten balanserer en krigslogikk og en rasjonell psyko-logi, at den skriver frem kamikaze-krigens premisser og forhistorie, og ikke minst at den situe-rer selvmorderen som ...

<p>Aim: The study looked to determine whether casein phosphopeptide-amorphous calcium phosphate (CPP-ACP) differed from toothpastes containing NaF in its ability to inhibit demineralization. <p>Materials: Extracted permanent molars were sectioned and allocated to 4 different groups. the pieces were treated 30 minutes daily for 7 days by the following agents: 1450 ppm NaF, 5000ppm NaF, CPP-ACP, ...

Norræna eldfjallastöðin eða NordVulk, seinna Norræna eldfjallasetrið á Íslandi, varð 50 ára árið 2024. Á þessum tímamótum hættir NordVulk því miður starfsemi í núverandi mynd og lýkur þá árangursríku skeiði norrænna eldfjallarannsókna á Íslandi. Hér verður stuttlega rakin saga stöðvarinnar og rifjaðar upp nokkrar frásagnir af lífinu á eldfjallastöðinni.

The A-type granites are an important component of the Earth's continental crust and play a significant role in understanding crustal evolution and tectonic processes. This study presents a comprehensive assessment of A-type granites from Ataitir El Dehami granites (ADG), which are located in the northwestern part of the Wadi Seih area in South Sinai, using geochemistry, zircon geochemistry and ...

The varied landscape of Sápmi – ranging from forests, coasts, mountains, tundra, and mires – and the livelihoods of those who live there have developed Sámi forms pedagogy, child-rearing, and education. This special issue explores the philosophies of Sámi education. The issue adopts a broad notion of education that involves formal and informal educational settings, kindergartens, schools and ...