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Effects of exercise mode, energy, and macronutrientinterventions on inflammation during military training
(2016)Load carriage (LC) exercise may exacerbate inflammation during training. Nutritional supplementation may mitigate this response by sparing endogenous carbohydrate stores, enhancing glycogen repletion, and attenuating ... -
Laboratory analysis of CBRN-substances: Stakeholder networks as clue to higher CBRN resilience in Europe
(2016)The threat of terrorists using CBRN agents continues to pose a risk of mass casualties and severe disruption of societal functions in Europe. Standardisation of crisis management activities is one important step towards ... -
Hyperosmolar sodium chloride is toxic to cultured neurons and causes reduction of glucose metabolism and ATP levels, an increase in glutamate uptake, and a reduction in cytosolic calcium
(2016)Elevation of serum sodium, hypernatremia, which may occur during dehydration or treatment with sodium chloride, may cause brain dysfunction and damage, but toxic mechanisms are poorly understood. We found that exposure to ... -
A new standard for predicting lung injury inflicted by Friedlander blast waves
(2016)An important blast injury mechanism is the rupture of the lungs and the gastrointestinal tract. In explosives safety studies and threat analysis the empirical model of Bowen is often used to quantify this mechanism. The ... -
Mathematical relations related to the lode parameter for studies of ductility
(2016)During plastic flow, hydrostatic pressure and plastic strain control the size of the yield surface while the Lode angle is responsible for its shape. The von Mises yield condition shows no dependency of the Lode angle ... -
From F-16 to F-35 - Optimizing the Training of Pilots in the Royal Norwegian Air Force
(2016)The Norwegian Armed Forces will soon make the largest investment in its history. It plans to spend $8 billion to replace the Royal Norwegian Air Force’s existing fleet of F-16 aircraft with 52 new F-35 aircraft. The Norwegian ... -
Pretreatment and prophylaxis against nerve agent poisoning: are undesirable behavioral side effects unavoidable?
(2016)The threat of chemical warfare agents like nerve agents requires life saving measures of medical pretreatment combined with treatment after exposure. Pretreatment (pyridostigmine) may cause some side effects in a small ... -
Jihadism in Norway: a Typology of Militant Networks in a Peripheral European Country
(2016)Jihadism in Norway has witnessed a huge shift from consisting primarily of foreign ethnically homogenous networks with a low capacity for mobilization, to the current situation where a loose country-wide network of domestic ... -
Uniformly stable wavelets on nonuniform triangulations
(2016)In this paper we construct linear, uniformly stable, wavelet-like functions on arbitrary triangulations. As opposed to standard wavelets, only local orthogonality is required for the wavelet-like functions. Nested ... -
Echinococcus across the north: Current knowledge, future challenges
(2016)Zoonotic Echinococcus spp. cestodes are present in almost all circumpolar nations, and have historically posed a risk to health of indigenous as well as other northern residents. However, surveillance data on both alveolar ... -
Islamic State Nasheeds As Messaging Tools
(2016)Although jihadi nasheeds play an important role in the Islamic State's propaganda, there is scant literature on the topic. This article is an exploratory study on seventeen Islamic State nasheeds released between December ... -
A new method for underwater archaeological surveying using sensors and unmanned platforms
(2016)As most of the world’s oceans are inaccessible to diving archaeologists, we must rely on advanced underwater technology and marine robotics to explore, map and investigate ship wrecks in these areas. New sensors and unmanned ... -
A Compressed Sensing Based Design for Formation of Range-Doppler Maps
(2016)Compressed sensing (CS) based reconstruction methods have been in much focus over the last years as they provide a mean to work with limited amount of data. In this article we present an application of CS and sparse ... -
Terahertz imaging of composite materials in reflection and transmission mode with a time-domain spectroscopy system
(2016)A fiber-coupled Terahertz time domain spectroscopy (THz-TDS) system based on photoconductive antennas, pumped by a 100-fs fiber laser, has been used to characterize materials in transmission and reflection mode. THz images ... -
Quantifying the tracking capability of space-based AIS systems
(2016)The Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI) has operated three Automatic Identification System (AIS) receivers in space. Two are on dedicated nano-satellites, AISSat-1 and AISSat-2. The third, the NORAIS Receiver, ... -
Right-Wing Terrorism and Violence in Western Europe: Introducing the RTV Datase
(2016)What is the record of right-wing terrorism and violence (RTV) in Western Europe post-1990? To date, RTV incident data suitable for temporal and cross-national comparisons have been lacking. Consequently, few comparative ... -
On the study of ricochet and penetration in sand, water and gelatin by spheres, 7.62 mm APM2, and 25?mm projectiles
(2016)We examine the ricochet and penetration behavior in sand, water and gelatin by steel spheres, 7.62 mm APM2 and 25 mm projectiles. A threshold impact angle (critical angle) exists beyond which ricochet cannot occur. The ... -
Naval sonar disrupts foraging in humpback whales
(2016)Modern long-range naval sonars are a potential disturbance for marine mammals and can cause disruption of feeding in cetaceans. We examined the lunge-feeding behaviour of humpback whales Megaptera novaeangliae before, ... -
Jihadistenes program i Europa
(2016)Trusselen fra jihadisme i Europa har aldri vært høyere enn den er nå. I følge en ny studie fra Forsvarets forskningsinstitutt (FFI) har det i 2015 og 2016 vært en betydelig økning i planlagte og utførte terrorangrep med ... -
Autophagic activity in BC3H1 cells exposed to yessotoxin
(2016)The marine toxin yessotoxin (YTX) can induce programmed cell death through both caspase-dependent and -independent pathways in various cellular systems. It appears to stimulate different forms of cellular stress causing ...