...that quotas are a useful measure for getting women into top positions. "I am a supporter of quotas. There are still relatively few female managers, and I think that quotas are one means of raising the proportion of women in such positions. In its time, the government of Gro Harlem Brundland included...
Each year more than 100 million boxes of snuff are sold in Norway, and many of them end up discarded as rubbish. Photo: Christina Benjaminsen Standard The plastic used to make snuff boxes is polypropylene, also known as PP plastic, which is one of the most common plastics used in consumer products...
Agenda workshop 1st day - 25 March 2015 08:30-09:00 Coffee/tea 09:00-09:05 Welcome and practical information CSIRO 09:05-09:20 Global Capture Technology Clare Penrose (GCCSI) 09:20-09:35 Peter Cook CCS Centre Geoff Stevens (Melbourne University) 09:35-09:55 CCS in Australia Paul Feron (CSIRO) 09:55-10:15...
The movements that occur in thermoelectric energy take place between atoms in materials that have different temperatures – and these movements drive the fan. Illustration photo: iStock Notes Have you heard of thermoelectric energy? Løvvik talks about this phenomenon in the Norwegian Smart forklart...
...in a project named EcoSolar. Photo: Thor Nielsen/ SINTEF. Notes This autumn, the four-year EU project, PVadapt, will start developing an adaptable and multifunctional BIPV (Building Integrated Photovoltaic) system of substantially lower cost than conventional solutions. Today, the cities account for...
The IT Age is upon us, and it overflows with high technology. This is how the computer shown below became a tool for two Nobel Prizewinners. Thomas Hysing, the father of Nusse, works on the innards of the technological wonder. Photo: SINTEF In 1950, work on Nusse, the first electronic computer to...
Both Norway and the EU operate with strict regulations governing what amounts of what chemicals are permitted for use in plastics that are designed for contact with our food. Her advice is that we should always use lunch boxes, bags and bottles that are specifically designed for food and drink. If the...
NOK 107 million in 2009. Good earnings over a period of several years have made it possible to invest more than half a billion kroner in laboratories and scientific equipment in the last five years. “We are satisfied with our results in 2010. SINTEF has become more robust during the last two years,...
...formula for successful industrial research is a long period of hard work, laying stone upon stone. Many years of research collaboration by Hydro, SINTEF and NTNU, with the essential financial support of the Research Council of Norway, are a good example of this formula. These efforts have made an important...
...presented as part of a set of guidelines, accompanied by practical explanations and instructions. “The aim is to enable the industry to reduce consumption and achieve its environmental targets by making more use of discarded materials and adopting measures that enable existing plastics to last longer”, says SINTEF...
Due to the way Li & Lim generated the test instances, the number of tasks in these instances are different and slightly higher than the nominal value. Here you find instance definitions and the best known solutions (to our knowledge) for the 100 tasks instances of Li & Lim's PDPTW benchmark problems...
...winter of mid-Norway's capital. Annah is an exchange student working towards a master's degree in the field of materials science. On behalf of SINTEF and NTNU, she is contributing her skills to a Norwegian industrial knowledge-building project devoted to technology for achieving greener metal production...
Contact Terje Moen Relevant info Dep. of Transport Research Heavy goods vehicles on Norwegian roads will soon be checked and weighed automatically – while on the road. Advanced sensors installed in the road surface, combined with number plate recognition systems, will enable the detection of far more...
...consider a synthetic sloping aquifer, created in this tutorial. The topography of the top surface and the geological layers in the model is generated by combining the membrane function (MATLAB logo) and a sinusoidal surface with random perturbations. Here, CO2 is injected in the aquifer for a period...
...release of MRST (2011a, 22nd of February 2011), the software has stabilised and solidified further. Ongoing review has uncovered and corrected a number of programming errors that only presented under very particular conditions and would typically affect few users. Moreover, work outside the core package...
...in the woods or along the beach in the middle of your working day. Stock Photo: iStock Notes Working hours. The balance between our working hours and free time has become a hot topic, not least in the wake of the Covid pandemic. In an article published on the professional online network LinkedIn, Nils...
The Instance Definition Format and cost definition: Below is a description of the format of the text file that defines each problem instance. A fleet of identical vehicles is assumed. The number of vehicles is given (-1 if unconstrained). Each vehicle has a capacity of Q. Nodes are indexed from 1 to...
Prosjektresultater som er presentert internasjonalt er listet opp nedenfor. Disse er alle fra delprosjektet innen mekanisk respons. H. Daiyan Experimental and numerical investigation of the mechanical response of injection moulded polypropylene materials PhD thesis, University of Oslo, 2011 M. Polanco-Loria...
...business world changes and competition from low-cost countries increases, new models must be developed which deliver competitive advantage by combining contemporary technological advances with the lean paradigm. The purpose of this paper is therefore to contribute within this area, and it aims to evaluate...
...adjoint formulation Plot the gradients Plot the schedule Plot the accumulated water and oil production for both cases Read case from file This example contains a simple fine grid containing two injectors in opposite corners and one producer in the middle of the domain. All wells are completed in the top layers...