Satellite observations of sea ice freeboard are integral to the estimation of sea ice thickness. It is commonly assumed that radar pulses from satellite-mounted Ku-band altimeters penetrate through the snow and reflect from the snow-ice interface. We would therefore expect a negative correlation between snow accumulation and radar freeboard measurements, as increased snow loading weighs the ice floe ...

Tackling antibiotic resistance represents one of the major challenges in modern medicine, and limiting antibiotics’ overuse represents the first step in this fight. Most antibiotics are prescribed in primary care settings, and lower respiratory tract infections (LRTIs) are one of the most common indications for their prescription. An expert panel conducted an extensive report on C-reactive protein ...

The flow around the Unmanned Arial Vehicle (UAV) operating at a low Reynolds number regime of the O() is predominantly laminar and it leads to the formation of Laminar Separation Bubble (LSB). The pressure, shear stress, and heat flux distribution are considerably affected by LSB, which affects lift, drag, and pitching moment values. Most existing RANS (Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes) turbulence ...

We explore whether emoji were associatively linked to emotion concepts represented in emotion-laden words, in line with the Associative-Propositional Evaluation model. Specifically, we tested these principles by exploring whether emotionally-congruent emoji could enhance word processing (Study 1 & 2) and recall (Study 3). In Study 1, participants completed a lexical decision task where word valence ...

Probiotics are reported to improve the nutrition, immunity, and health of fish. Nuclease can hydrolyze nucleic acids of probiotics to produce nucleotides. The present study investigated the effect of stabilized fermentation product of nuclease-treated <i>Lactobacillus rhamnosus</i> GCC-3 (GCC-3 NT) on growth, non-specific immunity, liver health, and gut microbiota of zebrafish (<i>Danio rerio</i>). ...

The self-assessed threshold temperature for cold in the workplace is not well known. We asked 392 chicken industry workers in Thailand what they regard as the cold threshold (CT) and compared subgroups of workers using linear and quantile regressions by CT sextiles (percentiles P₁₇, P₃₃, P₅₀, P₆₇, and P₈₃, from warmest to coldest). The variables ...

Bakgrunn Migrene er en utbredt tilstand i den norske befolkningen, og er nesten dobbelt så vanlig hos kvinner som hos menn. Det finnes ingen diagnostisk test for migrene, hvilket kompliserer fastsettelsen av diagnosen. International Headache Society har presentert et sett med diagnostiske kriterier, hvor diagnostisk gullstandard for diagnosen migrene regnes som applikasjon av disse kriteriene i ...

Background and objectives: Among HIV-infected children and adolescents who are receiving antiretroviral therapy, chronic lung disease (CLD) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality. Matrix metallopeptidases (MMPs) are involved in a wide range of physiological processes including the breakdown and turn-over of extracellular matrix. The majority of clinical studies investigating the role of MMPs ...

Sammendrag Hensikt: Denne masteroppgaven har tatt sikte på å utforske tanker og erfaringer tannleger har om pasienter som benytter seg ulikt av tannhelsetjenesten (THT) og hva som er viktig for tannlegen for å oppnå gode relasjoner med pasienter. Oppgaven har tatt et eksplorativt blikk på tematikken. Metode: Det ble benyttet kvalitativ forskningsmetode, tematikken ble utforsket gjennom s ...

High-throughput screening (HTS) methods for characterization of microbial production of polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) are currently under investigated, despite the advent of such systems in related fields. In this study, phenotypic microarray by Biolog PM1 screening of Halomonas sp. R5-57 and Pseudomonas sp. MR4-99 identified 49 and 54 carbon substrates to be metabolized by these bacteria, respectively. ...