The success of optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating relies to a large extent on suitable characteristics of the analysed mineral, in this case quartz. Previous OSL dating of Quaternary sediments in Scandinavia has shown that quartz characteristics vary widely across the region, resulting in dating studies with varied success. The aim of this study is to provide an overview of quartz ...

Environmental decisions and prosocial behaviors have been shown to be emotionally mediated, and language is at the core of emotions. The language context can alter the way decisions are made, and using a foreign language tends to favor an analytic approach to the decision and reduce its emotional resonance. In the present work, we explored whether or not the strategic use of a native vs. a non-native ...

Integrated scheduling of distributed manufacturing operations has implications for supply chain optimization and requires further investigations to facilitate its application area for various industry settings. This study extends the limited literature of the distributed two-stage production-assembly scheduling problems offering a twofold contribution. First, an original mathematical extension, the ...

<p>This PhD thesis focuses on the investigation of approximation properties of Cesàro means of the Vilenkin-Fourier series. In particular, we obtain some new inequalities related to the rate of <i>L^p</i> approximation by Cesàro means of the Vilenkin-Fourier series of functions from <i>L^p</i>. These inequalities imply sufficient conditions for the convergence of Cesàro means of ...

The Barents Sea has experienced intense erosion throughout the Cenozoic due to uplift and repeated episodes of glaciation. This, in turn, has driven large pressure and temperature fluctuations in the sediment substrate along with rearrangement of thermogenic oil and gas accumulations. As a result, some hydrocarbon fields have relatively shallow depths, and natural gas release is widespread. This ...

Semantic edge detection has recently gained a lot of attention as an image-processing task, mainly because of its wide range of real-world applications. This is based on the fact that edges in images contain most of the semantic information. Semantic edge detection involves two tasks, namely pure edge detection and edge classification. Those are in fact fundamentally distinct in terms of the level ...

I det siste har flere fysioterapeuter stilt seg undrende til Fysioterapeutens vinklinger i både aktualitetssaker og debattinnhold. Nå er på tide at noen stiller spørsmål ved redaksjonens strategi og prioriteringer.

Anti-doping measures are an essential part of professional sports around the world. Anabolic androgenic steroids have been among the most widely used illicit substance classes since the early days of the fight against doping. The conventional method for analysing these substances is gas chromatography combined with mass spectrometry (GC-MS). This approach is sensitive and selective but also very ...

By use of a nonlinear stage-structured population model the role of cannibalism and the combined role of cannibalism and harvest have been explored. Regarding the model, we prove that in most parts of parameter space it is permanent. We also show that the transfer from stability to nonstationary dynamics always occurs when the unique stable equilibrium undergoes a supercritical Neimark-Sacker (Hopf) ...

The electronic circular dichroism (ECD) properties of the green fluorescent protein and other fluorescent proteins have been calculated with density functional theory. The influence of different embedding models on the ECD signal of the chromophore has been investigated by modeling the protein environment by the polarizable continuum model (QM/PCM), by the polarizable embedding model (PE-QM/MM), by ...