...imaging cameras at airports could calculate queues and check-in times better than systems that make estimates using Bluetooth and WiFi on passengers' mobiles. Current security control procedures at Værnes Airport use two infra-red thermal imaging cameras and strategically located optical sensors to provide...
...the Norwegian public authorities and health trusts. Their work has been commissioned by the Norwegian Association for the Hard of Hearing. “Treatment provision is inadequate, and much poorer than is recommended by the EU guidelines on tinnitus diagnostics, examination and treatment”. So says Tron Vedel...
Manufacturing's vision is to show that sustainable and advanced manufacturing is possible in high cost countries, with the right products, technologies and humans involved. Cross-disciplinary research on multi-material products and processes, automated production and innovative organizations will provide a knowledge...
...recent years. The technology has become less expensive and more accessible. However, manufacturers are struggling to meet demand. Photo: Shutterstock Standard SINTEF has developed the world’s ‘hottest’ heat pump together with its industrial partners and colleagues at NTNU. It recently held its third conference...
...us. If we want to grab hold of an object, we have to know what it is we’re getting to grips with. And we have to know how far away it is. Viewing the world as a flat image simply isn’t good enough, and the same applies to robots. They have to see their surroundings as they are – in three dimensions....
... Ola Borten Moe, Norway’s Minister of Petroleum and Energy, inaugurated the brand-new flume, which is part of CEDREN's laboratory equipment, on Friday March 16. The Centre is led by SINTEF, NINA (the Norwegian Centre for Nature Research), and NTNU, and is one of eleven national centres for research on...
The combination of waves and cold sea water make the coast of northern Norway an ideal place to cultivate the brown algae badderlocks. This nutritious macroalgae is an excellent alternative to raw materials like Wakame – the tasty, green seaweed salad that is one of the ingredients used to make sushi...
...amnesties and truth commissions following settlements made after a civil war? Researchers have theories about peace agreements, but they know very little about what the people in areas of former conflict think about the initiatives taken to create peace. Do people feel excluded and marginalised? And, if so...
...psyche and only moderate cognitive impairment report a greater feeling of freedom when medication visits are stopped. Photo Thinkstock Users who tested the automatic drug dispensers ranged in age from 68 to 96 and exhibited a variety of disabilities such as paralysis, reduced motor function and visual...
...ships of the future. The European Union's MUNIN project, Rolls Royce and DNV GL are all developing technology and solutions aimed at putting unmanned vessels on the market. There is already a great deal of interest in this technology, and none of the experts at the seminar entitled 'How can unmanned merchant...
Rune Bjerke and Elin Eidesvik at C-feed. While salmon fry can eat dry feed from day one, saltwater species need live start-feed. This is now creating a new industry. Phto: Thor Nielsen Unique technology from SINTEF, NOK 13 million in fresh capital and an annual market potential of NOK 2 billion are...
Contents SPE1 case for fully implicit black oil solver Plot well and permeability Initialize schedule and system before solving for all timesteps Plot the solution Set up plotting Plot Producer Gas/Oil ratio Plot Injector Bottom Hole Pressure Plot Injector Bottom Hole Pressure SPE1 case for fully implicit...
...represented by Executive Vice President for Sustainability, Nils Røkke, and several other scientists from research areas such as CO2 capture and storage (CCS), offshore wind power, hydrogen, climate change adaptation, digitalisation and biodiversity. The United Nations Climate Change Conference is an annual...
...implementing of new run-time changes and dynamicity properties of distributed software, which realize collaborative services in ubiquitous environments. ”РАДУГА” is a proposed service dynamicity modeling method, with run-time composition language: a) expressive and universal to grasp run-time dynamicity...
...of the African Decade of persons with Disabilities); behind him Ms Noluthando Mayende-Sibiya (Minister for Women, Youth, Children and People with Disabilities) (left) and Ms Hendrietta Bogopane-Zulu (Deputy Minister of Public Works). Next row: Prof Mac MacLachlan (Trinity College Dublin), Ms Gubela Mji...
...on current pressing issues related to international business this autumn. The latest research and insight on respectively Global Operation Strategy and Global Sourcing will be presented by international and national academics as well as representatives from leading companies...
Popular science Cold comfort - Pan European Network: Science and Technology Journal papers 2013: Wiklund, G., Akselsen, O.M., Sørgjerd, A.J., Kaplan, A.F.H.: "Geometrical aspects of hot cracks in laser hybrid arc welding", Journal of Laser Applications (2013, in press). P. Mohseni, J.K. Solberg, M. Karlsen...
Smoke-divers are exposed to high temperatures, physical exhaustion and stress, and they can easily exceed the limits of what good health can tolerate. A new method based on measurements made by a wireless sensor system lets them know when the body has had enough. The warning system depends on measurements...
...tests to be carried out on the offshore wind turbine, and were aimed at checking its responses to the tough conditions that it would encounter at sea. Uniting wind-power and offshore technology Hywind combines technologies from the windpower and offshore petroleum industries. The pilot wind-turbinbe...
Interdisciplinary cooperation between technologists and surgeons has resulted in equipment for more precise removal of brain tumours. Neurosurgeon Geirmund Unsgård steers his instruments through the brain, guided by three-dimensional ultrasonic images. Photo: SINTEF/Ole Hesledalen The new equipment...