In this article, we consider the role that onset patterns play in shaping how acute global events are taken to be, drawing on illustrative cases from the field of global health emergencies. We identify four temporal manifestation patterns that we argue display distinct political dynamics. First, an emergent onset pattern (e.g. the H1N1 health emergency), with political dynamics dominated by ...

Municipalities have an important role in crisis management. The Norwegian emergency principles of responsibility, parity and proximity are central, and the government expects municipalities to take care of crises in their area in accordance with the civil protection law. Due to the varying natures of different crises, one can expect crisis management to take different paths. This paper challenges ...

This deliverable reports the results of white-box methodologies and early results ofthe first prototype of libraries and programming abstractions as available by projectmonth 18 by Work Package 2 (WP2). It reports i) the latest results of Task 2.2on white-box methodologies, programming abstractions and libraries for developingenergy-efficient data structures and algorithms ...

The largest hurdle in full duplex wireless systems is the self-interference introduced by the transmitted signal into the received signal. In multi antenna systems this interference is caused by the direct coupling between the transmitting and receiving antennas. In systems where the transmitter and receiver uses the same antenna the interference is caused by inadequate isolation between the ...

Parceling the anthropogenic and natural (geological) sources of fossil methane in the atmosphere remains problematic due to a lack of distinctive chemical markers for their discrimination. In this light, understanding the distribution and contribution of potential geological methane sources is important. Here we present empirical observations of hitherto undocumented, widespread and extensive methane ...

The distribution and concentration of subseafloor natural gas hydrate across margins is not well understood, because these systems are challenging to image and quantify remotely. Furthermore, it is unknown if shallow hydrate systems are linked to deeper oil and gas reservoirs. Herein, we analyze petroleum industry well logs with data in the gas hydrate stability zone and find that low concentrations ...

Wind chill factor is explained as the cooling sensation due to the exposure of wind temperature environment. The wind chill factor depends on air temperature, wind velocity, and humidity. Wind chill poses serious health risks. Various wind chill index models are given in the literature. In order to understand the wind chill effect, it is important to understand the phenomenon of heat transfer. There ...

In order to deliver on the emission cuts in the Paris Agreement, additional renewable energy production is required to cover the rising energy demand. This thesis assesses the wind resources, energy production potential and the economic sustainability of a new potential wind farm, located at Senja island in northern Norway. The aim of this thesis is to decide if a new wind farm at Senja is an ...

Giving the increasing penetration of intermittent wind power in the liberalized electricity market, wind power forecasting (WPF) is a topic of growing importance [Kariniotakis, 2017]. The number of papers on the field WPF evaluating the statistical performance has increased rapidly, while only a proportion of the former studies focus on the economic benefit of WPF. In this study we have answered how ...