BACKGROUND: Persons with severe intellectual disability (ID) may be non-verbal and unable to communicate pain or distress. Consequently, painful conditions may go undetected, and non-verbal persons with ID may not receive adequate care and treatment. OBJECTIVE: This study aims to explore how...
Lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases (LPMOs) catalyze oxidative cleavage of crystalline polysaccharides such as cellulose and are crucial for the conversion of plant biomass in Nature and in industrial applications. Sunlight promotes microbial conversion of plant litter; this effect has been...
Francisellosis in fish is caused by the facultative intracellular Gram-negative bacterial pathogens Francisella noatunensis ssp. noatunensis and Francisella orientalis. The disease is affecting both farmed and wild fish worldwide and no commercial vaccines are currently available. In this study, we...
Oslo Economics, i samarbeid med SINTEF Energi, har på oppdrag for Miljødirektoratet kartlagt bruk av fossil energi til stasjonær fyring i industrien og hvilke alternativer industrien har for utfasing av fossile brensler til fyring....
This chapter examines household energy practices in the ecological housing cooperative Klosterenga in Oslo, Norway. Klosterenga, built in 2000, was one of the early implementers of smart building principles in Oslo, Norway. Although the ecological profile of Klosterenga inspired some of the...
This policy briefing discusses decarbonization policies of “hard-to-abate” sectors, emphasizing the implications of these sectors’ complexity. Specifically, we discuss two sources of complexity: (a) heterogeneity in the form of variation across and within technologies and user segments and (b...
Fatigue can be a pre-cursor to many illnesses and injuries, and cause fatal work-related incidents. Fatigue detection has been traditionally performed in lab conditions with stationary medical-grade diagnostics equipment for electroencephalography making it impractical for many in-field scenarios...
Knowledge graphs have, for the past decade, been a hot topic both in public and private domains, typically used for large-scale integration and analysis of data using graph-based data models. One of the central concepts in this area is the Semantic Web, with the vision of providing a well-defined...
The leaching of additives from plastics and elastomers (rubbers) has raised concerns due to their potential negative impacts on the environment and the development of antibiotic resistance. In this study, we investigated the effects of chemicals extracted from two types of rubber on microbiomes...
Improving security posture while addressing human errors made by employees are among the most challenging tasks for SMEs concerning cybersecurity risk management. To facilitate these measures, a domain-specific modelling tool for visualising cybersecurity-related user journeys, called the HORM...
Current inference techniques for processing multi-needle Langmuir probe (m-NLP) data are often based on adaptations of the Orbital Motion-Limited (OML) theory which relies on several simplifying assumptions. Some of these assumptions, however, are typically not well satisfied in actual experimental...
Humans are the weak link in cybersecurity, hence, this paper considers the human factor in cybersecurity and how the customer journey approach can be used to increase cybersecurity awareness. The Customer Journey Modelling Language (CJML) is used to document and visualise a service process. We...
Cross-country (XC) skiing is an endurance sport performed outdoors in varying terrain and cold conditions, with competition formats ranging from 3-minute sprint races to 2-hour distance races. The race courses consist of ascending, flat, and descending terrain, designed so each of these sections is...
Electrochemical cells employing sodium (Na) and zinc (Zn) electrodes and chloride salt electrolytes have been imaged by neutron radiography during cycling. The use of such abundant raw materials in these cells confers a very low energy-normalized cost, but their charge-transfer mechanisms require...
Electric Water Heaters (EWHs) are ideal devices for implementing cost-saving energy management strategies due to their storage capabilities. With the growing adoption of smart EWHs in households, it is essential to assess their real-world performance and its impact on the grid. This study analyses...
Risk assessments of oil spills in the marine environment typically only address dissolved oil. However, oil droplets may adhere to some organisms and result in prolonged exposure not disrupted by diverging dispersal trajectories. Here, we present a framework for quantifying exposure of dissolved and...
Inequality of income and wealth has been increasing globally over the last two decades and is now described as one of the most pressing challenges of our time. This trend is also evident in Norway, where income inequality and the number of children growing up in persistent poverty are increasing...
Although responsible for adapting society to climate change, most municipalities in Norway lack systems for monitoring and evaluating their climate change adaptation (CCA) efforts, which may hamper improvements to and effective CCA. The article assesses adaptation progress in municipalities in...
Early Contractor Involvement (ECI) has been an emergent trend in the Norwegian infrastructure sector. However, there has not been much work done to analyze the efficacy of such collaboration on building projects when it comes to promoting sustainability. This study investigates this gap by...