Generating structured music using deep learning methods with symbolic representation is challenging due to the complex relationships between musical elements that define a musical composition. Symbolic representation of music, such as MIDI or sheet music, can help overcome some of these challenges by encoding the music in a format that allows manipulation and analysis. However, the symbolic ...

Background Subtraction (BgS) is a widely researched technique to develop online Change Detection algorithms for static video cameras. Many BgS methods have employed the unsupervised, adaptive approach of Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) to produce decent backgrounds, but they lack proper consideration of scene semantics to produce better foregrounds. On the other hand, with considerable computational ...

Artikkelen diskuterer hvordan ungdom begrunner sitt valg om å fullføre eller avslutte videregående opplæring før fullgått tid og hvordan de opplever at deres psykiske helseutfordringer påvirker deres livsmestring knyttet til utdanning. Ved hjelp av en spørreundersøkelse, individuelle forskningsintervju og fokusgruppeintervju er spørsmålene søkt besvart. Datamaterialet tydeliggjør betydningen av egne ...

Although teachers are expected to use digital tools in their mathematics teaching in many countries, little is known about preservice and inservice teachers’ digital competence, especially in relationship to specific groups of school students. Results from a survey of 394 preservice teachers and 61 inservice teachers, at three Norwegian institutions, provide information on how they considered different ...

The aim of the thesis was to explore the experiences of groups affected by the change in the Mental Health Care Act of 2017 when Norway introduced lack of consent capacity as an independent criterion for the use of coercion in mental health. Individual interviews were conducted to explore experiences with the change in the law from three perspectives in the northernmost health region of Norway. A ...

The Global Consortium for the Classification of Fungi and fungus-like taxa is an international initiative of more than 550 mycologists to develop an electronic structure for the classification of these organisms. The members of the Consortium originate from 55 countries/regions worldwide, from a wide range of disciplines, and include senior, mid-career and early-career mycologists and plant pathologists. ...

This chapter examines the influence of William Bartram´s <i>Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida</i> on the writing of Wordsworth and Coleridge in the 1790s and highlights the uniqueness of Bartram´s eco-centric approach to sublimity in early American thinking about the natural world. A practiced botanist and natural illustrator, Bartram delights in cataloguing ...

Forest-based bioenergy plays a key role in the energy transition and in meeting the EU renewable energy targets. Indirectly promoted by the EU legislation, forest biomass demand is increasing while European forest sinks are decreasing. To prevent forest-based bioenergy from exacerbating climate change instead of being part of the solution to mitigate it, the Renewable Energy Directive II and the ...

The European Union (EU) is committed to rapidly increase the use of renewable forms of energy, which is essential to tackle climate change. Accordingly, the current Renewable Energy Directive (REDII) sets a target to achieve 32 % of renewable energy in the EU gross final consumption by 2030. However, REDII is silent on national legally binding targets, which is a step back in comparison to the ...

Climatic warming has been hypothesized to accelerate organic matter decomposition by soil microorganisms and thereby enhance carbon (C) release to the atmosphere. However, the long-term consequences of soil warming on belowground biota interactions are poorly understood. Here we investigate how geothermal warming by 6 °C for more than 50 years affects soil microbiota. Using metatranscriptomics we ...