Intragranular boundaries are important features of polycrystalline materials and impact on many physical and chemical properties. Knowledge of their physical orientation is often crucial to explain such properties. However, it has proved difficult to determine the complete orientation of intragranular boundaries, which involves the misorientation angle and axis about which the adjacent crystal ...

<ol> <li>Studying how food web structure and function vary through time represents an opportunity to better comprehend and anticipate ecosystem changes. Yet, temporal studies of highly resolved food web structure are scarce. With few exceptions, most temporal food web studies are either too simplified, preventing a detailed assessment of structural properties or binary, missing the temporal ...

The Svalbard region faces drastic environmental changes, including sea-ice loss and “Atlantification” of Arctic waters, caused primarily by climate warming. These changes result in shifts in the sea-ice-associated (sympagic) community structure, with consequences for the sympagic food web and carbon cycling. To evaluate the role of sympagic biota as a source, sink, and transmitter of carbon, we ...

The People’s Republic of China (‘China’) has adopted legislation threatening to invade the Republic of China (‘Taiwan’) if the latter declares independence. Threats of force are prohibited by the UN Charter Article 2(4) and equivalent customary international law. This article proceeds along two apparently contradictory strands. On the one hand, the prohibition probably does not apply to non-State ...

Folkeretten har regler om statsimmunitet og diplomatisk immunitet, som gir stater og deres representanter vern mot fremmede staters domstoler og andre myndigheter. Norsk sivilprosess har bestemmelser om sektormonisme, som sier at folkeretten går foran norsk lov ved motstrid. Dette utgangspunktet kan virke enkelt. Folkerettens immunitetsregler har vært oppe for norske domstoler i en rekke saker, og ...

Norway recently increased the effective levy used to fund its export promotion programme for whitefish by 21 per cent. Study results suggest the intensified programme is welfare increasing. The net social gain, defined as the difference between the increase in economic surplus associated with the increased advertising and the decrease in economic surplus associated with the increased effective levy, ...

Background: Bacterial whole-genome sequencing based on short-read technologies often results in a draft assembly formed by contiguous sequences. The introduction of long-read sequencing technologies permits those contiguous sequences to be unambiguously bridged into complete genomes. However, the elevated costs associated with long-read sequencing frequently limit the number of bacterial isolates ...

In this paper homogenization of a mathematical model for biomechanics of a plant tissue with randomly distributed cells is considered. Mechanical properties of a plant tissue are modelled by a strongly coupled system of reaction-diffusion-convection equations for chemical processes in plant cells and cell walls, the equations of poroelasticity for elastic deformations of plant cell walls and middle ...

Innenfor den dynamiske tingsretten har hensynene til å motvirke kreditorsvik, notoritet, publisitet, legitimasjon og god tro vært fremhevet som sentrale. I nyere tid har også hensynet til koherens vært fremhevet i rettsdogmatiske fremstillinger av den dynamiske tingsretten. Artikkelen undersøker om, og eventuelt hvordan, hensynet til koherens kan få betydning ved tolkning av rettsspørsmål som faller ...

In recent years, the amount of data produced in the field of ART has increased exponentially. The diversity of data is large, ranging from videos to tabular data. At the same time, artificial intelligence (AI) is progressively used in medical practice and may become a promising tool to improve success rates with ART. AI models may compensate for the lack of objectivity in several critical procedures ...