The topic of this thesis is the development of the song lyrics to Nils-Aslak Valkeapää and Mari Boine. How they have been evolving and changing through times and looking for the long lines of the song lyrics, what is possible to see when looking at them. The Sámi society and communities have been changing in the last 50 years since the Sámi pop music in Sámi language made its way to the scenes. All ...

Roll motion is one of the six degrees of freedom and is the most difficult to predict, as roll motion is extremely sensitive to the viscous effect and induced flow separation. The smaller fishing vessel fleet commonly operates in almost all weather conditions, and sometimes in remote areas with cold arctic water where rescue can be far away and difficult. The safety of fishers depends on the vessel's ...

Denne artikkelen fokuserer på de komplekse samfunnsmessige relasjonene homofile samer er innvevd i; relasjonene til heteroseksualiteten som sosial institusjon, til norske homofile, til det samiske samfunn og til det norske samfunn. Artikkelens målsetting er å problematisere noen aspekter ved den doble minoritetsposisjonen homofile samer befinner seg i.

PAX6 er en transkripsjonsfaktor som er viktig for den normale utviklingen og funksjonen til øyet. Mutasjoner i PAX6 eller langvarig bruk av glukokortikoider er assosiert med patologiske tilstander i øyet, noe som indikerer at begge faktorene er viktig for øyets normalfunksjon. Øyet utsettes for oksidativt stress, og det er tidligere rapportert at både PAX6 og glukokortikoidreseptoren (GR) i andre ...

Experimental evidence has implicated genotoxic <i>Escherichia coli (E. coli)</i> and enterotoxigenic <i>Bacteroides fragilis</i> (ETBF) in the development of colorectal cancer (CRC). However, evidence from epidemiological studies is sparse. We therefore assessed the association of serological markers of <i>E. coli</i> and ETBF exposure with odds of developing CRC in the European Prospective Investigation ...

Acoustic target classification in multi-frequency echosounder data is a major interest for the marine ecosystem and fishery management since it can potentially estimate the abundance or biomass of the species. A key problem of current methods is the heavy dependence on the manual categorization of data samples. As a solution, we propose a novel semi-supervised deep learning method leveraging a few ...

<i>Background</i> - Risky sexual behaviour (RSB) is regarded as a major health problem during adolescence. Russia has one of the highest rates of teenage pregnancy, abortion and newly diagnosed HIV infections in the world, but research on RSB in Russian youth has been limited. To address this deficit, this study examined the role of several factors, including internalizing and externalizing symptoms, ...

The thesis explores the concept of dugnad, its meanings, and functions in contemporary Norwegian society. Dugnad is a tradition of unpaid voluntary work that can be traced back to agricultural society. Despite Norway undergoing substantial social, political and economic changes, it did not lose its relevance. In my thesis, I attempt to answer why practice so old prevailed in the modern world and how ...

Analysen av intervjuene førte frem til tre hovedtema. Det første temaet har jeg kalt ”Respirasjon som uttrykk for noe”, med underpunktene ”Smerte”, ”Følelser” og ”Ta plass”. Og dette temaet omhandler hva om uttrykkes gjennom respirasjon, og hvilken mening respirasjonen gis i behandlingen hos terapeutene. Det andre temaet har jeg kalt ”Pasientenes bevissthet rundt respirasjon”. Med underpunktene ...

Antibiotic resistance is threatening the achievements of modern medicine and will evidentially lead to a situation, in which we stand helpless against common bacterial infections. The largest and most widely used group of antibiotics are the β-lactams. One of the major resistance determinants against β-lactam antibiotics is the expression of hydrolytic enzymes, called β-lactamases (BLs). The main ...