The community composition of any group of organisms should theoretically be determined by a combination of assembly processes including resource partitioning, competition, environmental filtering, and phylogenetic legacy. Environmental DNA studies have revealed a huge diversity of protists in all environments, raising questions about the ecological significance of such diversity and the degree to ...

In this chapter, I discuss early picture postcards of South Saami and South Saami culture from approximately 1880–1950. The point of departure is Tromsø University Museum’s collection of more than 3800 postcards with Saami motives as well as the postcard exhibition ‘With an eye for the Sámi’ at Perspektivet Museum in the same city. While postcards of Saami have a bad reputation as objects of contempt ...

Thyroid hormone disrupting chemicals (THDCs) are of major concern in ecotoxicology. With the increased number of emerging chemicals on the market there is a need to screen for potential THDCs in a cost-efficient way, and <i>in silico</i> modeling is an alternative to address this issue. In this study homology modeling and docking was used to screen a list of 626 compounds for potential thyroid hormone ...

The thesis is about how port State measures the latter decade has grown to be an important tool in the fight against IUU fishing on the high seas.

Article 290 of the Law of the Sea Convention allows for the prescription of provisional measures to preserve the respective rights of the parties to the dispute or to prevent serious harm to the marine environment, pending any hearing on the merits or pending the constitution of an arbitral tribunal to which a dispute is being submitted. The thesis examines the jurisprudence on orders for provisional ...

Coffee market prices have been unstable over time. Determining the relative impact of supply and demand shift on price is a subject of discussion in this thesis. I use an index approach that was first introduced by Marsh (2003) to estimate the annual shifts in demand and supply for the periods from 2005 to 2017. This approach gives estimates to change in demand and supply of a given commodity which ...

Augment-less NPs in Xhosa and de NPs like <i>de chevaux</i> ‘of horses’ have strikingly similar properties. It seems that the properties of <i>de</i> NPs reflect the absence of the definite article <i>les</i> which combines with <i>de</i> to form the so-called partitive article <i>des chevaux</i> ‘some horses’. Taking the Xhosa augment to be similar (though not identical) to the French definite ...

Ecosystems are increasingly prone to climate extremes, such as drought, with long‐lasting effects on both plant and soil communities and, subsequently, on carbon (C) cycling. However, recent studies underlined the strong variability in ecosystem's response to droughts, raising the issue of nonlinear responses in plant and soil communities. The conundrum is what causes ecosystems to shift in response ...

<p>The work presented in this dissertation combines two fully independent approaches to achieve compound libraries for anticancer drug research. <p>Project 1: Development of compounds inhibiting human dUTPase as an amplifier of a thymidylate synthase inhibitor based cancer therapy <p>The human dUTPase has received increased attention as a drug target in the recent years. Its inhibition can ...

Artikeln bedriver en litteraturhistoriskt orienterad läsning av Josefine Klougarts <i>Om mørke</i> (2013). Artikeln argumenterar för att Klougarts roman stilistiskt och strukturellt är inspirerad av Virginia Woolfs författarskap, och att Klougart skriver in sig i en tradition av litterär impressionism. Även romanens bruk av stream of consciousness-teknik och dess fragmentestetik sätts i relation ...