This article reflects on the Exploring Arctic Soundscapes project, a transdisciplinary venture of sevennatural scientists, social scientists, and artists that sought to explore how a focus on sound could spurdevelopment of a new research sensibility for generating insights beyond the comfort zone of anyone discipline. Viewing sound less as an object of study (“what sounds define a place?”) or ...

This chapter discusses social media impact on local democracy and aims to provide knowledge about how social media impact politicians and political communication in local democracies. It discusses the special characteristics of social media, provides a brief overview of deliberative democracy values, and identifies what makes social media special in local politics. The empirical section examines ...

Tackling climate change is the ultimate goal of the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The 2030 Agenda includes 17 sustainable development goals. The current Finnish core curriculum for basic education also stresses the importance of strengthening the role of basic education in building a sustainable future. The data consists of pre-service language teachers’ responses to an ...

Methane, a potent greenhouse gas, is increasingly recognized to be emitted from newly deglaciated environments, particularly in the Arctic, yet due to data scarcity these sources remain underrepresented in global methane budgets. Deglaciation leads to the expansion of proglacial terrains, driving the formation of an increasing number of proglacial lakes worldwide, especially in Greenland. Small to ...

Oppdrett av laksefisk i åpne merder i sjø fører til at fôr, og andre stoffer, havner i vannmassene. Dette kan forventes å påvirke det tilstøtende økosystemet og artene som lever der. Formålet med denne rapporten er å oppsummere tilgjengelig kunnskap om de økologiske effektene av lakseoppdrett på ville kysttorskebestander. Siden 2021 har kysttorsk vært forvaltet i tre forvaltningsområder: sør for ...

Diatom resting stages can remain viable in sediments for decades and germinate when exposed to suitable environmental conditions, inoculating the water column and the surface sediments with new populations of cells. Classical methods, based on acid-cleaning of diatom frustules in sediment samples, do not discriminate between living and dead cells and may destroy the more fragile taxa. We used a ...

The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) was launched in 1997, and the first testing was done in 2000. The aim was to globally compare what students learn and can do. In 2000, 32 countries participated. In 2018, the number of participating education systems1 had more than doubled to 78. Compared to the other OECD countries, performance of students both in Germany and in Finland was ...

Historical records of climate fields are often sparse because of missing measurements, especially before the introduction of large-scale satellite missions. Several statistical and model-based methods have been introduced to fill gaps and reconstruct historical records. Here, we use a recently introduced deep learning approach based on Fourier convolutions, trained on numerical climate model output, ...

The proposed method demonstrates the conversion between a NURBS model and a generalized expo-rational B-spline (GERBS) surface with the aim of utilizing special combined expo-rational basis functions in finite element analysis.<p> <p>To achieve the transformation from a NURBS patch to a GERBS surface element, a linear extraction operator is employed. This operator maps the local combined expo-rational ...