There is very little knowledge related to how floating windfarms effect the marine environment as this is such a new “product”. Thus, the data that we gathered on this cruise will be novel in that sense. The aim of the cruise was to look at possible effects of the windfarm on the marine environment. Based on limited cruise time and tough weather conditions around Hywind Tampen we had to be selective ...

Let us start our introduction to utilitarianism with an example that shows how utilitarians answer the following question, “Can the ends justify the means?” Imagine that Peter is an unemployed poor man in New York. Although he has no money, his family still depends on him; his unemployed wife (Sandra) is sick and needs $500 for treatment, and their little children (Ann and Sam) have been thrown out ...

Background - The Low Energy Availability in Females Questionnaire (LEAF-Q) is a screening tool developed to detect endurance athletes and dancers at risk for development of persistent low energy availability (LEA) and the female athlete triad (Triad). This study investigated the applicability of the LEAF-Q in a cohort of sixty professional female football players.<p> <p>Methods - The participants ...

Background - The Mediterranean diet has been associated with lower risk of breast cancer (BC) but evidence from prospective studies on the role of Mediterranean diet on BC survival remains sparse and conflicting. We aimed to investigate whether adherence to Mediterranean diet prior to diagnosis is associated with overall and BC-specific mortality.<p> <p>Methods - A total of 13,270 incident breast ...

Cold-adapted enzymes are characterized both by a higher catalytic activity at low temperatures and by having their temperature optimum down-shifted, compared to mesophilic orthologs. In several cases, the optimum does not coincide with the onset of protein melting but reflects some other type of inactivation. In the psychrophilic α-amylase from an Antarctic bacterium, the inactivation is thought to ...

With the prevalence of smart meter infrastructure, data analysis on consumer side becomes more and more important in smart grid systems. One of the fundamental tasks is to disaggregate users' total consumption into appliance-wise values. It has been well noted that encoding of temporal dependency is a key issue for successful modelling of the relations between the total consumption and its decomposed ...

Når vi til daglig snakker om logikk, er det gjerne fordi vi vil si noe om hva som er rimelige antakelser, sannsynlige sammenhenger eller normal praksis. Det er logisk at glasset står på høyre side av kuverten når de fleste av oss er høyrehendt og det er logisk at glatt føre var årsaken til at bilen kjørte utfor veien. I formal logikk dreier det seg ikke om å vurdere sannsynlighet eller rimelighet. ...

Den kritiske rasjonalismen utviklet av Popper går imot relativisme og skeptisisme. Likevel er han opptatt av å vise at vi aldri kan bevise at det vi påstår er sant. Derimot, sier Popper, så kan vi bevise at noe er usant. Dette poenget fikk stor betydning for Poppers syn på vitenskapelig utvikling og fremskritt. Den amerikanske vitenskapsfilosofen Thomas Kuhns første bok het “Vitenskapelige revolusjoners ...

Der »Global Gender Gap Report«, in dem die Differenz der Geschlechter anhand von Indikatoren aus den Gebieten Wirtschaft, Gesundheit, Bildung und Politik gemessen wird, platziert die skandinavischen Länder schon seit mehreren Jahren auf den vordersten Plätzen. 2008 lag Norwegen sogar auf Platz. Die Unterschiede zwischen den Geschlechtern waren damit in keinem anderen Land geringer. Zum sechsten ...