The project objective is to investigate into luminescent coating materials that can be used in marking the roads in high-north. The idea of the project is not entirely new, and efforts have been worldwide to find an energy efficient solution to the street lights. Earlier work conducted in the Netherlands showed quite promising results. However, the challenges include weatherproofing the coat such ...

<i>Background</i> - MBLs form a large and heterogeneous group of bacterial enzymes conferring resistance to β-lactam antibiotics, including carbapenems. A large environmental reservoir of MBLs has been identified, which can act as a source for transfer into human pathogens. Therefore, structural investigation of environmental and clinically rare MBLs can give new insights into structure–activity ...

Helse- og miljørisikovurderingen av den genmodifiserte herbicidresistente maislinjen T25 (EFSA/GMO/RX-T25) fra Bayer CropScience er utført av Faggruppe for genmodifiserte organismer i Vitenskapskomiteen for mattrygghet (VKM). VKM er bedt av Mattilsynet og Direktoratet for naturforvalting (DN) om å vurdere helse- og miljørisiko ved en eventuell ...

Usage of antibiotics selects for resistant bacteria, resulting in reduced treatment options, and increased morbidity and mortality from microbial infections. Development of resistance in susceptible bacteria can occur through spontaneous mutation or horizontal gene transfer (HGT). Our current understanding of resistance development in bacterial pathogens is more descriptive ...

This article raises the question of why ABM–u was not continued as a cultural policy instrument for the LAM sector. The question provides a basis for elucidating conditions for state governance in the cultural heritage area, contributing to the academic and professional discussion of organizational and governance models in the public sector and reorganization processes in Norwegian public ...

Kunnskapssenteret fikk i april 2008 forespørsel fra Helse Sør-Øst RHF om å oppdatere Kunnskapssenterets rapport om pasientvolum og behandlingskvalitet ved hjerte- og karsykdommer fra 2007. Oppdragsgiver var særlig interessert i om det var kommet ny litteratur om betydningen av pasientvolum ved endovaskulær behandling. Vi rapporte-rer i dette notatet oppdatert problemstilling for behandling av ...

Helse- og miljørisikovurderingen av den insektsresistente og herbicidtolerante bomullshybriden MON 88913 x MON 15985 fra Monsanto (EFSA/GMO/UK/2007/42) er utført av Faggruppe forgenmodifiserte organismer i Vitenskapskomiteen for mattrygghet. Mattilsynet og Direktoratet for naturforvalting (DN) ber Vitenskapskomiteen for mattrygghet om å vurdere den genmodifiserte ...

Spectral clustering (SC) is a popular clustering technique to find strongly connected communities on a graph. SC can be used in Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to implement pooling operations that aggregate nodes belonging to the same cluster. However, the eigendecomposition of the Laplacian is expensive and, since clustering results are graph-specific, pooling methods based on SC must perform a ...

On 10. March 2006 , The Norwegian Food Safety Authority (Mattilsynet) decided that, on the basis of VKM’s previous risk assessment (2005), Nutramigen 1 with Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG (LGG) could not be marketed in Norway as medical foods for infants (0-4 months). In addition, The Norwegian Food Safety Authority (Mattilsynet) decided (08. November ...

Evaporative flux from soils in arid and semi-arid climates can be very high and may substantially reduce soil moisture retained between infrequent rainfall events. Direct measurement of the evaporative losses from soils is technically challenging. However, environmental tracers such as water stable hydrogen and oxygen isotope composition can be used to calculate evaporation rates if the initial ...