Rockfall modelling is an important tool for hazard analysis in steep terrain. Calibrating terrain parameters ensures that the model results more accurately represent the site-specific hazard. Parameterizing rockfall models is challenging because rockfall runout is highly sensitive to initial conditions, rock shape, size and material properties, terrain morphology, and terrain material properties. ...

This thesis investigates child second language acquisition without communication. This is a case study of a Norwegian four-year-old girl who has acquired English only by watching television. It is interesting to investigate language acquisition through television as language is argued to be a social phenomenon. It is predicted that the child, Lucy, will have no problems acquiring English structures ...

<p><i>Context - </i>Storytelling is an important asset in today’s society. Digital platforms for storytelling can facilitate collaborative development of stories. The storytelling process, if properly facilitated, can lead to the creation of stories that improve the relations between the players. Moreover, stories convey important information about the players and their interaction. Extended knowledge ...

Ultrasound based structural health monitoring of piezoelectric material is challenging if a damage changes at a microscale over time. Classifying geometrically similar damages with a difference in diameter as small as 100 m is difficult using conventional sensing and signal analysis approaches. Here, we use an unconventional ultrasound sensing approach that collects information of the entire ...

Nonulosonic acids (NulOs) are sugars expressed on the surface of bacterial cells as well as vertebrates and are involved in a multitude of physiological and pathogenic processes. Their biosynthesis is directed by gene clusters that vary in both gene content and organization, leading to a diverse family of compounds. The exploration of this diversity is relatively recent, helped by the amount of ...

The distribution of glides in French and their alternation with high vowels is a recurrent topic in the literature on French phonology. Having served as testing ground for various theoretical approaches, three questions in particular that on a regular basis revive the discussion are (i) the position of the glides in the syllable structure, (ii) the nature of the process, and (iii) the nature of the ...

This article considers early boats in Scandinavian spanning a timeframe from Early Mesolithic colonization at c. 9500 cal BC up until the beginning of the Late Iron Age around AD 600 from a northern Norwegian perspective. The role of boats in current models of maritime colonization and proxy evidence from carved rock art images of Bronze Age to Early Iron Age boats are evaluated before focusing on ...