Hva vet vi om alle bjørnebeinene som befinner seg i magasinene til Norges arktiske universitetsmuseum? Noen bjørnebein kommer fra arkeologiske undersøkelser, mens andre bein er sendt inn som gaver med ukjent opphav, det siste gjelder særlig bjørnebein som ble innsendt rundt 1900. Etter at Tromsø Museum ble opprettet i 1871, har museets kjernevirksomheter vært innsamling av og forskning på materiale ...

AC microgrids play a crucial role in integrating distributed energy resources and facilitating localized power management in contemporary power networks. Nevertheless, conventional droop control methods in these microgrids have constraints in guaranteeing precise power distribution, stability of voltage/frequency, and flexibility in response to changing operating conditions. This study introduces ...

Predicting sea ice concentration (SIC) is an important task in climate analysis. The recently proposed deep learning system IceNet is the state-of-the-art sea ice prediction model. IceNet takes high-dimensional climate simulations and observational data as input features and forecasts SIC for the next 6 months over a spatial grid over the northern hemisphere. The model has proven to be particularly ...

The Lyngen Magmatic Complex (Northern Norway) marks a major discontinuity in the metamorphic gradient of the North Norwegian Caledonides nappe sequence. The Lyngen Magmatic Complex preserves pre- and syn-collisional structures and parageneses of the Caledonian orogeny. This study differentiates the two deformation events and offers a tectono-metamorphic model for the region, using a combination of ...

Interdunal wetlands of the Medinipur coastal plain provide various agroecosystem services (AES). Local populace had been found to utilize these wetlands for subsistence livelihood since time immemorial. However, many of these wetlands have become degraded by extensive land use conversions along with increasing apathy among young farmers to continue wetland based traditional livelihood practices in ...

Over the last few years, Antarctica has attracted the interest of a significantly increasing number of both state and non-state actors, serving as a physical and political arena that hosts a unique combination of socioecological developments. Ranging from the ongoing battle against climate change to more complex geopolitical and economic antagonisms arising from resource extraction and fishing, ...

Customer demand and profit potential have pushed companies to offer diverse customization options in their products and move towards mass customization. To move towards mass customization reconfigurable manufacturing systems (RMS) have been prosed as a solution. However, it comes with challenges, including labor, costs, time, and complexity. Introducing intelligence, smartness and state-of-the-art ...

In the rapidly evolving landscape of digital platforms, the need for optimizing media representations to cater to various aspect ratios is palpable. In this paper, we pioneer an approach that utilizes object detection, scene detection, outlier detection, and interpolation for smart cropping. Using soccer as a case study, our primary goal is to capture the frame salience using object (player and ball) ...

The editorial board of Popular Music was very saddened to hear of the death of our esteemed friend and pioneer of Popular Music Studies, Philip Tagg. Here colleagues and friends pay tribute to his life and legacy. RIP Philip.

Cold seeps and cold-water corals (CWCs) coexist on Northern Norway's continental shelf at the Hola trough between Lofoten and Vesterålen. Here, cold seeps release methane from the seabed, yet none reaches the sea surface. Instead, the methane dissolves and disperses in the ocean where it is ultimately consumed by methane-oxidizing microorganisms. These microorganisms metabolize methane and release ...