The distribution limit of Ixodes ricinus ticks in northwestern Europe (Brønnøy, Norway, 1◦ south of the Arctic Circle), has been known since the 1930s. To reconfirm this finding and extend studies in the areas adjacent to the Arctic Circle (66◦33 N), ticks were collected from dogs and cats in 8 districts in northern Norway from 64◦56 N to 68◦48 N. We detected 549 I. ricinus, 244 (44%) of them ...

<p>The rapid booming of industry 4.0 technologies has been boosting further development of industrial manufacturing systems in the recent two decades. An increasing number of disruptive yet enabling technologies are becoming available for industrial applications. However, while the factories becoming more complex, a proliferation of incompatible systems that have been developed by different vendors ...

This paper is the first in a series of three studies that explore the pedagogy used in the Norwegian and Russian early childhood settings by examining texts that are part of the syllabus in two early childhood teacher education programs that participated in our project with student international exchanges. The study explores how Mikhail Bakhtin’s notion of dialogue relates to the concept of ‘learning’ ...

Objectives. To examine the relationship between ‘‘traditional Sami’’ dietary pattern and mortality in a general northern Swedish population. Study design. Population-based cohort study.<p> <p>Methods. We examined 77,319 subjects from the Va¨sterbotten Intervention Program (VIP) cohort. A traditional Sami diet score was constructed by adding 1 point for intake above the median level of red meat, ...

Arctic summer sea ice extent is decreasing and thinning, forming melt ponds that cover more than 50% of the sea ice area during the peak of the melting season. Despite of this, ice algal communities in melt ponds are understudied and so are their contribution to the Arctic Ocean primary production and carbon turnover. While melt ponds have been considered as low productive, recent studies suggest ...

I oppgaven undersøker vi hvilke forventninger ansatte i Åkerblå Group har til sine ledere. Vi skiller de ansatte på alder og kjønn, og ser etter likheter og forskjeller mellom disse to gruppene. Alder skilles mellom 18 og 40 år og 41 år eller eldre. Forskningsdesignet er kvantitativt og vi har benyttet oss av et eksisterende og godt utprøvd spørreskjema, LBDQ - Leadership Behaviour Description ...

Oppgaven gir en kort teoretisk introduksjon til begrepene strategisk planlegging, strategisk beslutning og scenarioplanlegging. Kvaliteten på beslutninger er sterkt knyttet til grad av bevissthet, rasjonalitet og kunnskap. En god strategisk beslutning er en beslutning som bidrar til å oppnå strategiske mål. For å fatte en god strategisk beslutning må beslutningstaker være bevisst på hvilke valg som ...

While targeted therapy exists for ER-positive breast cancers, the treatment option for TNBC is conventional chemotherapy giving a poorer prognosis. It is therefore of interest to study molecular mechanisms and differences between MCF7 (ER-positive) and MDA-MB-231 (ER, PR, and HER2- negative). These cell lines are in vitro representative models for luminal A (non-aggressive) and basal-like (aggressive) ...

<p>Bakgrunn. Vulvodyni er smertetilstand i vulva, med varighet på minst 3 måneder. Det er en eksklusjonsdiagnose. Av alle kvinner har 3-15 % kroniske smerter i vulva. Formål. Å undersøke 1) utvalgt komorbiditet blant kvinner med vulvodyni, 2) behandlingstilbudet i Skandinavia og 3) effekt av ulike behandlinger. <p>Metode. Litteratursøk er utført i databasene «MedLine» og «PubMed». <p>Resultat. ...

The gastrointestinal (GI) microbiota of vertebrates plays critical roles in nutrition, development, immunity and resistance against invasive pathogens. In the past decade, research of the GI microbiota of mammals has drastically increased our knowledge on the microbiota and their relationship with health and disease. However, our understanding of fish intestinal microbiota is limited. This ...