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...on a common set of principles and practices such as active customer engagement in the development process, avoidance of extensive planning in advance, iterative development and continuous testing. Some of the more known and used methods are Extreme Programming, SCRUM and DSDM. These methods may represent...

Petroleum Safety Authority Norway has stressed the need to manage and monitor operational and organizational barrier elements. Personnel should understand what barriers have been established and which function they are intended to fulfil, and performance requirements should be defined in respect of the con-crete...

Mg₅(CO₃)₄(OH)₂·5H₂O, and a member of the hydrocarbonate mineral group. It was named in 1970 by Gunnar Raade, after the Dypingdal serpentine-magnesite deposit in Norway ( ). Recently, it was reported that this mineral can effectively remove heavy metals (e.g., Cr, Cd, Cu, Pb, Ni ( )) from water and cause their...

... Security Awareness and Training (SAT) programs are commonly put in place to reduce risk related to insecure behaviour among employees. There are however studies questioning how effective SAT programs are in terms of improving end-user behaviours. In this context, we have explored the potential of applying...

...phylogenetically very diverse group of photosynthetic unicellular pro- and eukaryotic organisms growing in marine and other aquatic environments. While they are well explored for the generation of biofuels, their potential as a source of antimicrobial and prebiotic substances have recently received increasing interest...

...presents recent developments in electrochemical devices for photo- and spectroelectrochemical investigations, with the emphasis on miniaturization (i.e., nanointerdigitated complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor devices, micro- and nano-porous silicon membranes or microoptoelectromechanical systems)...

This chapter defines and discusses important concepts like risk, uncertainty, vulnerability and interdependency. In the literature, these concepts are used in various ways and there exists no common accepted terminology. Therefore, these terms are defined to provide a basis for consistent use throughout...