Climate change is triggering shifts in species distribution eventually altering communities’ biogeography. The composition of a community in terms of its species’ ecological niche informs of a community’s response to environmental conditions and impacts, which is central for a timely conservation. While the thermal niche has been widely explored, given it offers a direct link of warming effects ...

Volatility in the supply chain of critical products, notably the vaccine shortage during the pandemic, influences livelihoods and may lead to significant delays and long waiting times. Considering the capital- and time-intensive nature of capacity expansion plans, strategic oper ational production decisions are required best to address the supply-demand mismatches given the limited production ...

A large hindrance to analyzing information in genetic or protein sequence data has been a lack of a mathematical framework for doing so. In this paper, we present a multinomial probability space X as a general foundation for multicategory discrete data, where categories refer to variants/alleles of biosequences. The external information that is infused in order to generate a sample of such data ...

Polar cod (Boreogadus saida) play a crucial role as a key species in Arctic marine ecosystems. The importance of successful feeding of particularly their sensitive early life stages for survival and later recruitment into the adult population is known. This study investigated the diets of age-0 polar cod in the Greenland Sea (Northeast Greenland) during the summer and fall of 2017, focusing on ...

Chinstrap penguins (Pygoscelis antarctica) are central place foragers during their breeding season in the austral summer, which restricts the distance and duration they can forage away from their chicks. Recent studies indicate a regional decline in chinstrap penguin populations across their distribution range. During breeding, they almost exclusively feed on Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba), a ...

Microfossil classification is an important discipline in subsurface exploration, for both oil & gas and Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS). The abundance and distribution of species found in sedimentary rocks provide valuable information about the age and depositional environment. However, the analysis is difficult and time-consuming, as it is based on manual work by human experts. Attempts to automate ...

Introduction: Over the preceding decade, an increasing number of drugs have been approved by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) with limited knowledge of their relative efficacy. This is due to the utilization of non-randomized, single-arm studies, surrogate endpoints, and shorter follow-up time. The impact of this trend on the accessibility and affordability of newly approved drugs in Europe remains ...

Background Mental health problems are highly prevalent in prison populations. Incarcerated persons generally come from disadvantaged backgrounds and are living under extraordinary conditions while in prison. Their healthcare needs are complex compared to the general population. Studies have found that incarcerated individuals are reluctant to seek help and that they experience challenges in ...

The Bronze Age of Central Europe was a period of major social, economic, political and ideological change. The arrival of millet is often seen as part of wider Bronze Age connectivity, yet understanding of the subsistence regimes underpinning this dynamic period remains poor for this region, in large part due to a dominance of cremation funerary rites, which hinder biomolecular studies. Here, we ...

Denne artikkelen drøfter de sensoriske og sanselige uttrykkene og verdiene blant skikjørere som bedriver topptur i Tromsø, Nord-Norge. Fra et feltarbeid i vinterfjellet skildres empiriske turforløp som spiller opp sterke utslag av følelser, og underbygger betydningen av turlagsrelasjoner. Med inspirasjon fra sosialfenomenologiske antropologiske perspektiver og en autoetnografisk tilnærming beskriver ...