Sponges have recently been proposed as ideal candidates to act as natural samplers for environmental DNA due to their efficiency in filtering water. However, validation of the usefulness of DNA recovered from sponges to reveal vertebrate biodiversity patterns in Marine Protected Areas is still needed. Additionally, nothing is known about how different sponge species and morphologies influence the ...

The aim of this article is to present the first results of a dialectological expedition undertaken by undergraduate and postgraduate students from the University of Tromsø to the Ter Coast of the White Sea. The paper presents some historical and ethnographical facts from two small villages, Varzuga and Umba. The people in these villages speak Pomor dialects which are poorly investigated but interesting ...

<p><i>Background - </i>Almost all health care interventions have the potential to be associated with risk to patient safety. Different terminologies are used to define treatment induced risk to patient safety and a common definition is the term adverse effect. Beyond the concept of adverse effect and specific to homeopathy is the concept of homeopathic aggravation. Homeopathic aggravation describes ...

The article “... please do not forget that you have a friend”: Olaf Broch and Aleksej Aleksandrovič Šachmatov is based on archivе materials containing hitherto unknown facts from the life of the Norwegian Slavist Olaf Broch. The article focuses primarily on aspects of Broch’s biography after the death of his colleague and friend, the Russian Academy member Aleksej Šachmatov. Fragments of the ...

Autophagy is the degradation of cytoplasmic material through the lysosomal pathway. One of the most studied autophagy-related proteins is LC3. Despite growing evidence that LC3 is enriched in the nucleus, its nuclear role is poorly understood. Here, we show that <i>Drosophila</i> Atg8a protein, homologous to mammalian LC3, interacts with the transcription factor Sequoia in a LIR motif-dependent ...

<i>Background:</i> Help-seeking is considered a constructive coping style. However, the threshold at which many adolescents seek help is relatively high, and the outcomes are not necessarily always positive.<p> <p><i>Objective:</i> The main aim of this study was to examine if bullying and cyberbullying victimization predicted help-seeking behavior among< Norwegian adolescents.<p> <p><i>Method:</i> ...

We present here observations of the polarisation of four auroral lines in the auroral oval and in the polar cusp using a new ground polarimeter called <i>Petit Cru</i>. Our results confirm the already known polarisation of the red line, and show for the first time that the three other lines observed here (namely 557.7 nm, 391.4 nm and 427.8 nm) are polarised as well up to a few percent. We show that ...