A visually impaired individual (VI) encounters numerous challenges in their daily activities, particularly in tasks reliant on visual systems such as navigation, educational pursuits, and shopping. Online shopping poses a heightened difficulty due to its reliance on visual representations of products in digital formats. The impact of visual impairment on product selection based on reviews remains ...

This study is the first assessment of a fjord Ecological Quality Status (EcoQS) by comparing both the traditional morphology-based and emerging metabarcoding techniques in benthic foraminifera. For this, we focus on historically polluted Idefjord on the Swedish Norwegian border, which has experienced high effluent load from pulp and paper mill for almost a century. Based on our results, the morphological ...

<p><i>Background - </i>Severe inflammatory bowel disease can be successfully treated with biologic drugs such as anti-TNF. However, there is no consensus on if and how to stop treatment. Our group has earlier shown that normalization of TNF gene expression may be a beneficial prognostic factor when attempting to discontinue biologic therapy. We here present data from a series of patients in endoscopic ...

A multi‐instrument study is conducted at the dayside polar ionosphere to investigate the spatio‐ temporal evolution of scintillation in Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signals during non‐storm conditions. Bursts of intense amplitude and phase scintillation started to occur at ∼9 MLT and persisted for more than 1 hour implying the simultaneous existence of Fresnel and large‐scale sized ...

The early radiation of dinosaurs remains a complex and poorly understood evolutionary event^1–4 . Here we use hundreds of fossils with direct evidence of feeding to compare trophic dynamics across five vertebrate assemblages that record this event in the Triassic–Jurassic succession of the Polish Basin (central Europe). Bromalites, fossil digestive products, increase in size and diversity ...

Most modern language technology for proofing tools, machine translation and other applications is based on machine learning. However, very few Indigenous languages have the necessary amount of texts for making tools based on this technology. When most language technology is based on large language models (LLMs), it bears the risk of most of Indigenous language online text being produced by neural ...

Lokale forhandlinger har ført til variasjoner i rammene for lærernes arbeidstid i vårt skoleslag. I denne studien har jeg undersøkt omfanget av planfestet arbeidstid, årsrammer for undervisning og samarbeidstid i ulike profesjonsfellesskap i de institusjonsskolene som omfattes av opplæringslovens §§28-3 og 28-4. Jeg har videre innhentet perspektiver og synspunkter på lærernes arbeidstid i en ...

I denne masteroppgaven, skal jeg se nærmere på hvordan en global miljøutfordring som krever komplisert avtaleverk mellom stater er egnet til å gi utfordringer i lokale planprosesser. For å nå de nasjonale mål har Norge forpliktet seg til konvensjoner, og det må skje en såkalt «omstilling» over til bærekraftige energikilder. For Norges del betyr det overgang til mer vindkraft på land. Det er nasjonale ...

The Barents Sea is a hotspot for environmental change due to global warming. These changes impact the structure and functioning of the marine ecosystem year-round, and it is therefore important to gain knowledge on trophic relationships and the energy flow from primary producers, i.e., ice algae (sympagic algae) and phytoplankton (pelagic algae) to consumers over the entire seasonal cycle. By using ...

The partial Hessian approximation is often used in vibrational analysis of quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) systems because calculating the full Hessian matrix is computationally impractical. This approach aligns with the core concept of QM/MM, which focuses on the QM subsystem. Thus, using the partial Hessian approximation implies that the main interest is in the local vibrational ...