In this thesis we present a scientific investigation of the spectral and bidirectional reflectance properties of two lichen species, <i>Flavocetraria nivalis</i> and <i>Cladina stellaris</i>, and one moss, <i>Racomitrium lanuginosum</i>. The spectral and bidirectional characterizations were based on high-quality laboratory measurements made in the European Goniometer facility, at the Joint Research ...

In this thesis, we investigated the role of NEAT1 in stress, cancer, and autophagy in breast cancer. In paper I, we studied NEAT1 in oxidative stress and heat shock. In the heat shock response, HSF1 translocates into the nucleus in order to activate its target gene, and we discovered a novel binding site for HSF1 in the promoter of NEAT1. The expression of NEAT1, as well as paraspeckle formation, ...

The main aim of the paper is damage detection at the microscale in the anisotropic piezoelectric sensors using surface acoustic waves (SAWs). A novel technique based on the single input and multiple output of Rayleigh waves is proposed to detect the microscale cracks/flaws in the sensor. A convex-shaped interdigital transducer is fabricated for excitation of divergent SAWs in the sensor. An angularly ...

This article provides an overview about the main facts and analytical options in the domain of determiners and quantifiers in Spanish. It covers the main classification of determiners and their basic syntactic and semantic properties (§1), the differences in behaviour between quantifiers and determiners in the strict sense (§2), the notion of definiteness and ...

This paper investigates the acquisition of residual verb second (V2) in three corpora consisting of data from Norwegian-English bilinguals (Emma, Emily and Sunniva) in order to determine to what extent these structures are affected by cross-linguistic influence (CLI) from Norwegian V2. The three girls exhibit three different patterns with regard to the relevant constructions. They are very target-like ...

The Sasa Pb-Zn-Ag deposit belongs to the group of distal base metal skarn deposits. The deposit is located within the Serbo-Macedonian massif, a metamorphosed crystalline terrain of Precambrian to Paleozoic age. The mineralization, hosted by Paleozoic marbles, shows a strong lithological control. It is spatially and temporally associated with the calc-alkaline to shoshonitic post-collisional magmatism ...

The aerial parts of land plants are covered by a hydrophobic layer called cuticle that limits non-stomatal water loss and provides protection against external biotic and abiotic stresses. The cuticle is composed of polymer cutin and wax comprising a mixture of very-long-chain fatty acids and their derivatives, while also bioactive secondary metabolites such as triterpenoids are present. Fleshy ...

This paper explores the ecosystem services provided by anadromous brown trout (often termed sea trout) populations in Norway. Sea trout is an important species in both freshwater and marine ecosystems and provides important demand-driven ecological provisioning and socio-cultural services. While the sea trout once provided an important provisioning service through a professional fishery and subsistence ...

Denne studien tar for seg følgende problemstilling: Hvordan brukes sosial lek i det spesialpedagogiske arbeidet i barnehagen? Grunnlaget for å svare på denne problemstillingen tar utgangspunkt i en kvalitativ metode med bruk av et intervjudesign. Det er blitt gjennomført sju semistrukturerte intervju med sju pedagoger som arbeider spesialpedagogisk i sju ulike barnehager. Dette for å få en dybdeforståelse ...

Vår forskning handler om krenkende språkbruk blant barn og unge. Forskningens grunnpilar ser på ledelse av endrings- og transformeringsprosesser i organisasjonen og hvordan skoleleders fokus på arbeid med danning basert på felles verdigrunnlag kan bidra til større bevisstgjøring i forhold til krenkende språkbruk. Vårt forskerfokus er på hvilke ledergrep og muligheter skolen har for å forebygge og ...