In the context of Edge Computing or Cyber-Physical Systems, cross-functional, and cross-geographical DevOps teams are in charge of automating deployments, configuration, and management (i.e., reconfiguration) of complex, large-scale, highly dynamic, and geo-distributed service-oriented software systems. In this context, DevOps teams cannot reasonably manually coordinate their reconfiguration operations ...

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are regarded as a potential platform for deploying airborne free space optical (FSO) fronthaul/backhaul links. The challenge emerges from the UAV hovering mobility which deteriorates beam alignment. To solve this challenge, we conducted two hover flights using a quadrotor UAV to measure vibration levels and hover fluctuations offering practical insights into the ...

The liver is an organ with many facets, facilitating numerous physiological functions. This chapter concentrates on the role of the liver as an immune organ, with a special focus on the unique role of each cell type that builds the liver. The hepatic sinusoids are the interface between the blood (and thereby the rest of the body) and hepatocytes, and host several cell types intimately involved in ...

This study aims to identify factors that are important to improve the retention of foster parents, which is crucial to meet the increasing need for good and stable foster homes. Using data from a survey conducted by the Norwegian Foster Homes Association, we assessed which variables could predict the willingness of foster parents to take on the same foster care placement again. Multinomial logistic ...

Crystal plasticity models enhanced with coupled or uncoupled damage and fracture criteria give an opportunity to account for the role of microstructure in ductile fracture, most directly representing the local variations of stress and strain fields inside and between the grains, voids and particles. Some computationally efficient crystal plasticity, damage and fracture models have recently been ...

This thesis offers a comprehensive analysis of how climate change affects fisheries, presenting empirical evidence and methodological innovations that contribute to the development of adaptive management strategies. In particular, it seeks to understand how warming waters, distributional species shifts, and extreme weather events are disrupting fishery dynamics and undermining the stability of ...

Introduction As the global population ages, the incidence of cardiometabolic diseases and associated healthcare costs rise. There is a critical need for preventive interventions enabling long-lasting treatment effects to address the decline in physical performance and metabolic health among older adults. The RESTART (RE-inventing Strategies for healthy Ageing: Recommendations and Tools) randomised ...

Can and Should Human Beings Be Translated ‘Back Into Nature’? Nietzsche sets himself a “strange and insane task,” viz. “to translate the human being back into nature.” He claims that we are in dire need of arranging our lives more appropriate to nature into which we belong. Nietzsche considers it crucial to recognise the will to power as the one principle that guides all living things and thus also ...

This chapter explores the concept of positionality as one of the main themes of the OIN Ocean Literacy Toolkit. It draws on positionality theory and anti-oppressive, decolonial research methodologies that incorporate positionality as a reflexivity tool in social research. Drawing on Donna Haraway’s seminal essay on “Situated Knowledges”, the chapter elaborates on questions that researchers might ask ...

Purpose - The purpose of this study is to show that the neo-documentary – or complimentary – approach in Library and Information Science by no means is conservative, but highly necessary also in today's digitized media landscape. An example from a digitized photo archive is chosen to demonstrate the importance of a complimentary analysis that considers both material aspects as well as social and ...