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Klimaaftryk af overdiagnostik
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-11-13)Det antages, at sundhedssektoren står for 4-5% af udledningen af drivhusgasser på verdensplan [1]. En del af klimaaftrykket kan mindskes politisk ved at gøre elektricitet og andre forsyninger mere bæredygtige. Ligeledes kan der med god og billig offentlig transport og høje benzin- og parkeringsafgifter mindskes, at ansatte, patienter og pårørende tager bilen. Organisatorisk kan vi f.eks. mindske ... -
Who Needs to Tell the Truth? - Epistemic Injustice and Truth and Reconciliation Commissions for Minorities in Non-Transitional Societies
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-01-08)Truth and Reconciliation Commissions (TRCs) have become a widely used tool to reconcile societies in the aftermath of widespread injustice or social and political conflict in a state. This article focuses on TRCs that take place in non-transitional societies in which the political and social structures, institutions, and power relations have largely remained in place since the time of injustice. ... -
Exploring the Potential of Sentinel-1 Ocean Wind Field Product for Near-Surface Offshore Wind Assessment in the Norwegian Arctic
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-01-24)The exploitation of offshore wind resources is a crucial step towards a clean energy future. It requires an advanced approach for high-resolution wind resource evaluations. We explored the suitability of the Sentinel-1 Level-2 OCN ocean wind field (OWI) product for offshore wind resource assessments. The SAR data were compared to in situ observations and three reanalysis products: the global ... -
The bacterial magnesium transporter MgtA reveals highly selective interaction with specific cardiolipin species
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-10-23)The bacterial magnesium transporter A (MgtA) is a specialized P-type ATPase important for Mg<sup>2+</sup> import into the cytoplasm; disrupted magnesium homeostasis is linked to intrinsic ribosome instability and antibacterial resistance in Salmonella strains. Here, we show that MgtA has functional specificity for cardiolipin 18:1. Still, it reaches maximum activity only in combination with ... -
Translocal familyhood and Lifelines across Borders
(Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2023)<p>What are translocal families and what are their lifelines like? The theoretical section of the chapter explains translocality, translocal familyhood and lifelines, the three key concepts of the book. Based mainly on research carried out for the Inequalities of Mobility: Relatedness and Belonging of Transnational Families in the Nordic Migration Space project, the authors ponder how emotion, ... -
Eventually-Consistent Replicated Relations and Updatable Views
(Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2023-08-31)Distributed systems have to live with weak consistency, such as eventual consistency, if high availability is the primary goal and network partitioning is unexceptional. Local-first applications are examples of such systems. There is currently work on local-first databases where the data are asynchronously replicated on multiple devices and the replicas can be locally updated even when the devices ... -
Validation of ESDS Using Epidemic-Based Data Dissemination Algorithms
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2023-09-27)The study of Distributed Systems (DS) is important as novel solutions in this area impact many sub-fields of Computer Science. Although, studying DS is not an easy task. A common approach is to deploy a test-bed to perform a precise evaluation of the system. This can be costly and time consuming for large scale platforms. Another solution is to perform network simulations, allowing for more flexibility ... -
Towards Data Dissemination Policy Prediction for Constrained Environments Using Analytics
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2023-09-27)<p>In Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) such as Wireless Sensors Networks (WSN), disseminating data is crucial. Under energy constraints with limited communications capabilities, performing data dissemination is challenging. In such contexts, common data dissemination methods cannot be used. Nodes must rely on device-to-device communications policies to mitigate the impact of communications on the nodes ... -
Neural networks to retrieve in water constituents applied to radiative transfer models simulating coastal water conditions
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-02-16)Estimation of chlorophyll (CHL) using ocean colour remote sensing (OCRS) signals in coastal waters is difficult due to the presence of two other constituents altering the light signal: coloured dissolved organic material (CDOM) and mineral suspended sediments (MSS). Artificial neural networks (NNs) have the capacity to deal with signal complexity and are a potential solution to the problem. Here ... -
Arctic Pedagogy
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-12-19)The concept of an ‘Arctic Pedagogy’ is enticing. Arctic branding sells: for example, UiT is not just the ‘University of Tromsø’ but also the ‘The Arctic University of Norway’. Moreover, research in Scotland as part of the ‘New Northern Pedagogies Project’ is now investigating “how the principles of Arctic Pedagogy can support teacher education provision across Scotland”. Such conversations invite ... -
Investigating the effects of the ketone body ß-hydroxybutyrate and the anti-cancer compound MHP88 on glioblastoma multiforme cells in vitro
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2021-05-16)Introduction: Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most aggressive human brain tumor with a mean survival of 15 months. It is therefore necessary to explore new treatment strategies, and to study how different hallmarks of cancer can be utilized in this regard. The marine natural product mimic MHP88 can attack the cancer cells’ ability to evade immune destruction by inducing immunogenic cell death ... -
Seksuelle overgrep begått av voksne eller jevnaldrende: risikofaktorer, psykisk helse og livskvalitet i et representativt ungdomsutvalg
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2022-02-15)Bakgrunn: Rundt halvparten av seksuelle overgrep mot barn og unge begås av jevnaldrende, likevel vet vi lite om forskjeller i risikofaktorer og helsekonsekvenser relatert til om overgriperen har vært voksen eller jevnaldrende. Formål: Studien undersøker risikofaktorer, psykisk helse og livskvalitet relatert til seksuelle overgrep, og forskjeller relatert til om overgrepet ble begått av voksne eller ... -
Deep Learning in Precancerous Lesions Detection during Surveillance Colonoscopies of IBD Patients.
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2024-01-11)Deep Learning (DL) models have developed tremendously over the last couple of decades in their ability to train across large datasets and give fast and accurate results across a varied number of tasks like image classification and segmentation. This is the reason why DL models are being increasingly adopted for aiding medical professionals in the diagnosis and detection of various medical conditions ... -
Aquilier: An Ethereum-Based Smart Contract for Door-Lock Management in Home Assistant
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2023-12-15)The widespread adoption of distributed computer systems, exemplified by plat- forms like Airbnb and Booking.com, has transformed homes into rental proper- ties and streamlined vacation rentals by offering comprehensive tools for listing properties, processing payments, facilitating searches, and enabling communi- cation. However, a critical gap remains: these platforms do not facilitate ... -
Parid-GO A Personalised Augmented Reality Game to Reinforce Outdoor Physical Activity for People with Intellectual Disabilities
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2023-09-11)Parid-GO A Personalised Augmented Reality Game to Reinforce Outdoor Physical Activity for People with Intellectual Disabilities. This project aims to develope a dynamic content solution that are user centric. The rationale is that by allowing the participants to customize and use other themes, colors, etc., the participant will be more engaged and use the application more. Which in turn will increase ... -
A Comparison Between Oil-to-Water Volumetric Fractions Derived from L-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery and in Situ Samples
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-10-20)We compare in-situ water volume measurements of mineral oil emulsion sampled from an oil slick in Santa Barbara, California, to acquisitions of airborne UAVSAR data acquired in June 2022. Estimating the water-to-oil fraction using the UAVSAR imagery, we find that low SNR in the co- and cross-polarimetric channels limits this capability above a certain oil-to-water volumetric threshold. Higher SNR ... -
Hubs and Hyperspheres: Reducing Hubness and Improving Transductive Few-shot Learning with Hyperspherical Embeddings
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-08-22)Distance-based classification is frequently used in transductive few-shot learning (FSL). However, due to the high-dimensionality of image representations, FSL classifiers are prone to suffer from the hubness problem, where a few points (hubs) occur frequently in multiple nearest neighbour lists of other points. Hubness negatively impacts distance-based classification when hubs from one class appear ... -
Image Inpainting With Hypergraphs for Resolution Improvement in Scanning Acoustic Microscopy
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-08-14)Scanning Acoustic Microscopy (SAM) uses high-frequency acoustic waves to generate non-ionizing, label-free images of the surface and internal structures of industrial objects and biological specimens. The resolution of SAM images is limited by several factors such as the frequency of excitation signals, the signal-to-noise ratio, and the pixel size. We propose to use a hypergraphs image inpainting ... -
“I See What You Feel”: An Exploratory Study to Investigate the Understanding of Robot Emotions in Deaf Children
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-02-09)Research in the field of human–robot interactions (HRIs) has advanced significantly in recent years. Social humanoid robots have undergone severe testing and have been implemented in a variety of settings, for example, in educational institutions, healthcare facilities, and senior care centers. Humanoid robots have also been assessed across different population groups. However, research on various ... -
Homologous Recombination Deficiency Across Subtypes of Primary Breast Cancer
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-12-01)Purpose - Homologous recombination deficiency (HRD) is highly prevalent in triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) and associated with response to PARP inhibition (PARPi). Here, we studied the prevalence of HRD in non-TNBC to assess the potential for PARPi in a wider group of patients with breast cancer.<p> <p>Methods - HRD status was established using targeted gene panel sequencing (360 genes) and ...