Icing on power lines may lead to compromise safety and reliability of electric supply network. Prolong icing can lead to power breakdown and collapse of towers. Since power transmission lines are mostly overhead and could face the direct impact of icing, and it is one of the main challenges faced by power distribution companies in cold regions. When the ice accretion crosses the safety limit then ...

This thesis investigates how the unemployment rate affect the sickness-absence in Troms county. For doing so, we set up a model that investigates the causal relationship between labor market tightness and workers absence behavior and the cyclical selecting of employees with bad health during different states of the business cycle. We take advantage of over 230,000 recorded sickness-absences and ...

Fisheries agreements between EU-Seychelles have been in place since 1984. Since then, the agreements have been in constant changes in response to the constructive criticisms from NGOs and scientists to the CFP. An exploratory study assessing the relationship between the EU-Seychelles Fisheries Agreements has been conducted. It focuses on the changes and the differences between the Fisheries Partnership ...

Marin plastforsøpling er et tema med vind i seilene. Jeg har gjort kvalitative intervjuer med norske og russiske fiskere. Målet har vært å forstå møte mellom hvordan alt oppstyret rundt forsøpling ser ut fra fiskeflåten, og hvordan styring av fiskeriene påvirker atferden i dem. Institusjonell teori er en sentral del av oppgaven. Avfallssproblemet og håndteringen av det er i ferd med å bli ...

Denne rapporten er en bestilling fra tidligere Sosial-og helsedepartementet om å vurdere kunnskapsgrunnlaget om effekt av palliativ smertebehandling ved kreft, dvs. Effekt av ulike behandlingsmetoder for å lindre smerter hos pasienter med uhelbredelig (ikke-kurabel) kreftsykdom.

<p><i>Background</i>: The present study explored and compared the immediate responses in markers of inflammation and angiogenesis in maintenance heart transplant (HTx) recipients before, during and after sessions of high-intensity interval training (HIT) versus moderate-intensity continuous training (MICT). The study aimed to explain some of the trigger mechanisms behind HIT in HTx recipients.</p> ...

<i>Ingress</i>: Kristian Gundersen blir ikke suksessforfatter om hans skrifter blir OA, men han vil kunne nå ut til «the long tail» av potensielle lesere. Jeg synes ikke han skal kimse av det, skriver Jan Erik Frantsvåg.

The Notch signaling pathway plays a crucial role in neurodevelopment and in adult brain homeostasis. We aimed to further investigate Notch pathway activity in bipolar disorder (BD) and schizophrenia (SCZ) by conducting a pathway analysis. We measured plasma levels of Notch ligands (DLL1 and DLK1) using enzyme immunoassays in a large sample of patients (SCZ n = 551, BD n = 246) and healthy controls ...

Abstract: As various concerned scientists and organisations such as the UN, the World Bank, WFP, and FAO point out, global food security progressively turns out to be one of the major challenges that our human family faces nowadays. Among other factors, this is a function of rapid population growth, decreasing global food production due climate change. As they have always been an important ...

The expansion of the aquaculture sector around the world has resulted in a growth of the demand for fishmeal (FM). Due to the limited sea resources, the price of FM has risen significantly in past years pushing the sector to find substitutes. In this context, insects attract more and more industrial and scientific attention as they have many advantages. First, with around one million species estimated, ...