In mammals the JAK-STAT pathway plays a significant role in mediating the biological activities of both type I and type II IFN, where JAKs are receptor associated kinases and STATs the transcription factors they activate. At the start of this project the knowledge of the JAK-STAT pathway in fish in general was scarce and there were few reports describing the function of any JAK-STAT family member ...

Fish consumption is well acknowledged to reduce risk of cardiovascular disease, the health benefits mainly being associated with EPA and DHA. Increasing evidence, however, demonstrate that also the proteins and other bioactive compounds may be of relevance to human health. This project was initiated in order to examine the nutritional composition and bioactivity related to cardiovascular disease ...

Subtidal hard-bottom habitats constitute substantial parts of the Arctic fjord ecosystem. There is a deficiency in complex faunistic surveys of the composition of hard-bottom fauna in the Arctic. The aim of this study was to increase the understanding of how animals are distributed on hard-bottom and their role in the marine ecosystem in the Arctic. A baseline study of hard-bottom zoobenthos in ...

Hvordan forvaltes kystsonen? Denne avhandlingen søker å gi svar på dette spørsmålet ved å følge en kommunal kystsoneplanprosess. Case-området er Alta kommune. Avhandlingen studerer hvilke praksiser de kommunale planmyndighetene har satt i gang for å utarbeide en arealplan for sjøområdet. Hvordan har kommunen organisert planprosessen? Hvordan foretar planmyndighetene avveininger mellom ulike interesser? ...

Arctic peatlands store more than one sixth of the soil organic carbon (SOC) on Earth. Microorganisms decompose SOC, leading to the production of the greenhouse gases methane (CH4) and carbon dioxide (CO2). Large temperature increases are predicted in the Arctic towards the end of the century (1–6 °C in summer and 2–11 °C in winter). How the microorganisms in Arctic peatlands will respond to this ...

This thesis is about tourism firms as co-creators of value in tourist activities. It will explore how tourism firms communicate, particularly by using storytelling, to enhance co-creation of value with tourists. A central perspective used in this thesis is Service Dominant Logic, a logic that posits that service providers can only co-create value with their customer, not for them (Vargo and Lush ...

Brassica is a genus of plants that includes vegetables that are widely used for human consumption and contain high levels of health-promoting compounds. These vegetables are grown in large parts of the world, and the environmental conditions where they are cultivated can affect several quality attributes. The research presented in this thesis examined how variation in growth conditions with ...

My thesis ‘The influence of snow cover and cold-season temperatures on growing-season processes’ is treating the ongoing trend and future projections of increasing snow cover thickness during the Arctic winter. More snow means two things: warmer soils during winter and later melt-out in spring. Both are important changes for Arctic terrestrial ecosystems, since warmer soils will increase CO2 emissions ...

Mortality of demersal fish eggs caused by predation was investigated in this research project. The selected prey species were the Barents Sea capelin Mallotus villosus and lumpsucker Cyclopterus lumpus L, while the selected predators were capelin itself by cannibalistic behaviour and the invasive red king crab Paralithodes camtschaticus. Both capelin and lumpsucker are commercially important species ...

It is evident that, both due to the large water volumes they hold and that they stretches from coast to inland, it is to be expected that the northern Norwegian fjords plays an important role in a climatic scientific context. Also generally northern regions are considered as a choke point in the regional as well as the global climate. In my opinion it is therefore surprising to find thorough physical ...