• The Forgotten Queer Utopia 

    Imperitura, Lorenzo (Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2024-10-30)
    Queerness is inherently utopian, just as the concept of utopia is inherently queer. Both utopia and queerness are a result of stepping out of a restrictive and oppressive space-time framing, hence why the need of creating worlds or realities that are outside the area of influence of majoritarian forces. The possibility of escaping and resisting a hierarchical and oppressive system allows the rise ...
  • Flymedisinsk sertifisering av mental skikkethet 

    Rød, Maria (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2024-08-19)
    Denne studien handler om den rutinemessige flymedisinske kontrollundersøkelsen av mental skikkethet hos søkere til legeattest klasse 1. Flyleger har en viktig funksjon ved å være ansvarlig for å vurdere «flygeres flymedisinske skikkethet i lys av fremtidig funksjonssvikt under flygning» (Luftfartstilsynet, 2023c, s. 3). Flylegers funksjon og rammebetingelser for å praktisere flymedisin er definert ...
  • Reconstructing dietary practices at Tell Kamid el-Loz (Lebanon) during the Bronze and Iron Age III / Persian to Hellenistic periods using plant micro-remains from dental calculus and stable isotope analysis of bone collagen 

    Gur-Arieh, Shira; Eisenmann, Stefanie; Henry, Amanda G.; Lucas, Mary Alexis; Lenz, Daniela; Paxinos, Ptolemaios; Weber, Hélène; Morandi, Lionello F.; Stone, Jeffery R.; Schultz, Michael; Roberts, Patrick; Stockhammer, Philipp W. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-07-24)
    Tell Kamid el-Loz (Lebanon) was an important Bronze Age urban center that dominated one of the central crossroads of the Ancient Near East, connecting Egypt and the Levant with northern Mesopotamia, Anatolia, and Syria, as well as the interior with the Mediterranean coast. However, by the early Iron Age, the site had shrunk to a small rural settlement. Later, in the Iron Age III / Persian-Hellenistic, ...
  • Assessing climate-induced risks to urban railway infrastructure 

    Garmabaki, A.H.S.; Naseri, Masoud; Odelius, Johan; Famurewa, Stephen; Asplund, Matthias; Strandberg, Gustav (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-07-14)
    Climate change and its severe impacts pose a number of challenges to transport infrastructure, particularly railway infrastructure, requiring immediate action. A railway system is a linear distributed asset passing different geographical locations and exposed to heterogeneous vulnerabilities under diverse environmental conditions. Furthermore, most of the railway infrastructure assets were designed ...
  • A survey related to current technologies in Arctic region for autonomous driving 

    Rahim, Aqsa (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-09-28)
    Autonomous driving has sparked an entire revolution in the vehicle sector, offering to increase the safety for road users, productivity, and convenience. However, using autonomous driving vehicles in hostile environments like the Arctic present’s challenges because of the bad weather, lack of infrastructure, rough terrain, poor vision, icy and unreliable road surfaces, and inaccessible locations. ...

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